As I am learning more about Javascript, Typescript has come up a handful of times already. Each time I hear someone talk about it or come across it on a blog, I’m always thinking, “What is Typescript?” So I decided to dig a little more and find out what all the commotion is about this “Typescript.”

So what is Typescript?

According to their website,

“Typescript is a typed superset of Javascript that compiles to plain Javascript.”

It is an open-source, object-oriented programming language that was developed by Microsoft and made public in October 2012. Microsoft wanted to create a language that helped with the…

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